Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court Abuja has permitted the Department of State Service (DSS) to detain 10 suspected terrorists, who had planned to launch a Boko Haram/ISWAP attack on cell in Osun, for 60 days pending conclusion of investigation. In a ruling on the ex-parte motion moved by their lawyer, Justice Nwite […]
•Chief of Army Staff Lt. General Olufemi Oluyede The family of the 81-year-old Pa Dennis Okugbaye, the treasurer of the Okuama community in the Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State, who died in military detention on December 10, 2024, have explained the circumstances surrounding his death. The revelation came as the Delta State [...
•Nigerian soldiers The Defence Headquarters has rejected claims by Amnesty International that 10, 000 persons died in its custody since the Boko Haram conflict began in the northeast. The international human rights organisation’s Country Director, Isa Sanusi, at a briefing in Maiduguri, accused Boko Haram and the military of many abuses, repor...
The recent release of protesters detained in connection with the August 1 to 10 #EndBadGovernance protests in some parts of the country has raised fresh issues concerning the propriety of the arrests, detention, trial and treatment of suspects while in custody as well as the sudden interests shown by state governments in the case. It […...
•Incarcerated children protesters Abuja-based Human Rights Radio has gone off air to protest the arrest of minors during the #EndBadGovernance protest. Ahmed Isah, owner of the station, announced this while featuring on the Berekete family, a breakfast programme. Isah, who used to anchor the radio programme every week day, was not in the studi...
•Protesters Lawyers and civil society organisations, CSOs, yesterday, decried the continued detention and incarceration of #EndBadGovernance protesters two months after the August 1-10 protests across the country. As of last night, most of the detained protesters are yet to be prosecuted, with minors among those held in captivity in Police, De...
•Protesters As Nigerians expect government’s intervention to ameliorate the biting hardship, Civil Society Organisations, CSOs, today, expressed displeasure over the continued detention of #EndBadGovernance protesters and demanded conditional release of them. The demand was contained in an open letter addressed to President Bola Tinubu, which ...
•DSS operatives The Department of State Services, DSS, has released Adejuwon Soyinka, a former editor of the BBC Pidgin Service, after detaining him for hours at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. This came as the International Press Institute, IPI, Nigeria, a global network of editors, media executives, and communication exp...
The Executive Chairman of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, Jalal Arabi, and the commission’s secretary, Abdullahi Kontagora, are currently in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over the alleged mismanagement of the N90bn 2024 Hajj subsidy. In a document sighted by our correspondent yesterday, the anti-graft age...
The Court of Appeal in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has dismissed an appeal filed by the Department of State Services (DSS) against a judgment in favour of Richard Abbey, a pipeline surveillance contractor with Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in Bonny local government area of the state. In a unanimous decision, the court presided ov...
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